Pahempi Toistaan · Apulanta

161 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 49-56 and 61-62, and 7 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 131 BPM
PAHEMPI TOISTAAN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 32, 47, 60, 79, 80 and 15 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 19 sections: 115 keep time, 21 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-72.

CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEIFJC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pahempi Toistaan?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pahempi Toistaan hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pahempi Toistaan?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 32, 47, 60, 79, 80 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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